BAMN holds Ann Arbor protest over court ruling on college admissions

6:57 PM,
Apr. 24, 2014

Maricruz Lopez, 27, of Detroit yells into a bullhorn during a protest that she and over 20 other members of By Any Means Necessary held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor today against the Michigan Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.

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There's only oneway to view the U.S. Supreme Court's decision earlier this week to uphold a ban on the use of affirmative action in public university admissions, Mario Martinez believes - it was a racist move aimed at keeping minorities like him out of college.

"I think it was unfair and racist," Martinez, 18, a senior at Detroit's Cass Technical High School, said during a protest today on the University of Michigan campus. Martinez applied to attend U-M, but had his application pulled by the university because he submitted it too late. Martinez disputes this and says he sent it on time. "They ...